"This article examines the experience of employment policy in Denmark as a case of how one country deployed an experimental design to shape the evolution of its political economy. This article distinguishes social learning from interest and authority-based arguments in theories of institutional change and development. The argument of this article is that learning processes contributed to incremental developments that both Liberal and Social Democrat officials have made in employment policy since the Great Recession. Institutional structure and market-oriented interests are important, but the discovery of new knowledge about employment problems through a recursive policy planning process contributed to the reconfiguration of the networks of policy agents. The experimental accumulation of practical knowledge brought the government to a major reassessment of its employment strategy."

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